the work beyond the first year until it is completed. The 
Commission made a third transfer of $18,000 to the Service 
for a study to assess and characterize food preferences and 
feeding areas for manatees in certain areas of Florida as an 
important step in describing critical habitat. These 
transfers, as is the case with inter-agency transfers made 
by the Commission, were accompanied by precise guidance as 
to ways in which the money was to be spent. Work on both 
projects is underway, and a progress review will be held in 
February 1981. 
To assist the State of Florida in its efforts to protect 
and encourage the recovery of the manatee, the Commission 
contracted with The Florida Department of Natural Resources 
to: convene a series of enforcement workshops to provide 
special training for officers of the Florida Marine Patrol 
(the enforcement arm of the Department of Natural Resources) 
on relevant laws and enforcement procedures, manatee biology, 
and general information related to manatee protection; 
prepare and disseminate special brochures to better inform 
and educate the public; rewrite the manatee section of the 
Florida Marine Patrol's field enforcement manual; and constitute 
and support a State Manatee Advisory Committee for its first 
year's operation. 
With respect to the enforcement workshops, the Florida 
Marine Patrol held eight regional workshops before the 
beginning of the 1980-81 winter season. One hundred and 
sixty-eight Florida Marine Patrol officers, seventy Florida 
Game and Freshwater Fish Commission officers, two Puerto 
Rico Department of Natural Resources enforcement officers, 
and representatives from other governmental agencies, and 
private groups participated. One index of the success of 
the workshops may lie in the comparative figures for Florida 
Marine Patrol manatee-related citations in the 15 November- 
31 December periods for 1979 and 1980. These were: 1979, 
31 arrests and 190 written warnings; 1980, 72 arrests and 
850 written warnings. The brochures for the public are to 
be finished in early 1981 as is the revised field enforcement 
Manual. Selections were made in 1980 for the Advisory 
Committee and formal invitations are to be extended in early 
PGI. 
During the Commission's February meeting, the Director 
of the Florida Marine Patrol noted that while the Florida 
Department of Natural Resources had posted more than 300 
signs to warn boaters to reduce speeds because of the possible 
presence of manatees, many signs remained to be posted. 
Preliminary discussions took place with the U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers' representative as to whether the Corps might 
assist in posting the remaining signs, and the Commission 
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